Re: A TFM Compliance Checker for the TeX Live distribution

Very cool! Would you be able to extend this to other font format?

Paulo Ney

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 5:12 AM Didier Verna <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>   Dear all,
>
> in slight anticipation to my upcoming talk at TUG 2024, I wanted to
> announce that with the help of Norbert Preining, we have set up a
> website[1] that runs a compliance validation tool on every TFM font in
> the TeX Live distribution, and aggregates the results.
>
> The site is updated on a daily basis. There's still a lot of room for
> improving the output, but at least the information is out there. The
> system currently detects 770 fonts presenting some oddities with respect
> to the TFM format...
>
> Thanks also to Karl Berry for some early feedback. Not sure how useful
> this actually is, but it was not difficult to do, so... ;-)
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  https://texlive.info/tfm-validate/
>
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